Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1980's

Meyer stabs Spearfish MX By Mary Hanson SPEARFISH, SD, SEPT. 7 Honda-mounted Blaine Meyer finished first overall in 250cc B action at Borderline Racing Association's motocross today -.... v .0 o .... u o Vance 8< Hines' Jamie lewis takes a turn on the Suzuki GSXR750; the team led for all but 30 minutes in reaching the 2085 mile mark. Endurance RR (Continued from page 6) 28 FZ750 was lurking just four laps behind them at the ei~ht-hour mark. While runnin~secondoverall, Gale had the front end wash out in turn six at 8:30 p.m. Gale, who looked surprisin~ly fit in comparison to the man~led bike. said, "We're usin~ 17inch front tires hecause wedon't have an spare 18's andl think we made the wron~ move: these are wearin~ too quickly ... The Johnson & Wood crew swarmed over the wrecked Yamaha, inslallin~ new tires and wheels, c1ip-ons. exhaust system and li~hts, and repaired the le,tkin~ fuel tank. By a quaner pasl 10 they were finished and Reinen took the b'ike, sans fairin~, back 01110 the track. They had worked their way up to 16th place when they decided to pack it in at II :40 p.m., due to the dirriculty of ridin~ the unfaired bikes at the speeds of which it was Gipable. The winner of this summ..r's Nelson Led~es 24-Hour, Team Pro-Motor 2, surrered a similar fate. Aft..r runnning near the front of the pack all day and into th .. ni~ht, their FZ750 overheated and they pilled for repairs just before midnight while running fourth overall on Yokohama street tires. With a borrowed radiator from the retired Team 2 bike, they ~ave it their best erron to finish the race. But it was not to be as the en~ine had tightened up and wouldn't rev. further paring the field to 17 teams. A bri~ht light amidst the illeviLable allrition was the performance of Team Hoe. They ran a well planned, consistent race with the only dimcully surrered being a broken chain around two a.m. while Cardillo was aboard. "I threw a master link in turn eight and I was turning the Ii~hts on and off to get someone's allention," said Cardillo. The problem corrected, Team Hoe rejoined the race in third position overall, regaining second by the end of the 16th hour. An amazing display of durability and consistency was turned in by Black Knight Racing on a stock Kawasaki 250 Ninja. Team members L.K. Rogers, Bud Rogers, Nesley Malatino, Eric Farraday, Gene Mannin~ and Gordon Siem covered 1750 miles, finishin~ 12th overall and first in the Li~htwei~ht Production cJaS/; after sLanin~ at the back of the fidd. Most everyone re~ardless of their results a~reed they'd had a fine time and vowed to return for next year's 24-Hour West. . Followin~ the endurance ract' the AFM ran two 10-lap sprint races, Suzuki GSXR750 and GSXRIIOO l"llational Cup events. The be~innin~ of the 750 race saw Don Caneltake the holeshot ahead of SCOll Gray, Dou~ Polen, Malcolm Hill, Mike Minni~and James Domay. C

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